See Also: CLOUD(S), MOON, SKY COLOR

1. Bleak [sky] … as if the sun had just slipped off the edge of the world —Susan Welch
2. A blue, cloudless sky spread like a field of young violets —Hugh Walpole
3. The cloudless sky was like an inverted bowl that hemmed it in —W. Somerset Maugham
4. The clouds formed like a beach and the stars were strewn among them like shells and moraine —John Cheever
5. A cloudy grey sky through which the sun shone opaque like an Alka Seltzer —Jilly Cooper
6. The evening sky, with its head dark and its scarves of color, looked like an Italian woman with an orange in her hand —Christina Stead
7. The expanse of the sky was like an infinite canvas on which human beings were incapable of projecting images from their human life because they would seem out of scale and absurd —Anaïs Nin
8. The gray (Seattle) sky lies around her, filmy and thick, like you could eat it —Barry Hannah
9. The grey, soft, muffled sky moved like the sea on a silent day —Nadine Gordimer
10. The horizon was like an open mouth —David Ignatow
11. Lifeless sky … like the first day of creation —Edith Wharton
12. Light spread across the horizon like putty —T. Coraghessan Boyle
13. Skies like inverted cups —John Rechy
14. Sky … as clear as a window —Beryl Markham
15. Sky as clear, as firm-looking, as blue marble —David Ignatow
16. Sky as drab as a cast-iron skillet —Jessamyn West
17. Sky … as soft as clouds of blue and white hyacinths —Ellen Glasgow
18. The sky bloomed like a dark rose —James Reiss
19. The sky covered with stars … like dots in a child’s puzzle —Helen Hudson
20. Sky … flat and unreal as a glimpse of distant ocean —Sharon Sheehe Stark
21. The sky … flung itself over the earth like a bolt of blue cloth —Dianne Benedict
22. (Over the city) the sky hangs like a giant silken tent —Erich Maria Remarque
23. The sky hangs like lead —Erich Maria Remarque
24. The sky hisses and bubbles like a cauldron —W. P. Kinsella
25. The sky hovering overhead like a soundless dirigible that was about to crash —Heinrich Böll
26. The sky hung over the valley … like a slack white sheet —Elizabeth Bowen
27. The sky is darkening like a stain —W. H. Auden
28. The sky is like a heavy lid —Ridgely Torrence
29. The sky is like a human mind, with uncountable shifting pictures and caverns and heights and misty places, and lakes of blue, and big sheets of forgetting, and rainbows, illusions, thunderheads, mysteries —John Hersey
30. The sky is like a page from a book that hasn’t been written —François Camoin
31. The sky is like a peach-colored sheet drawn taut at the horizon —Russell Banks
32. A sky like a dirty old slate —M. J. Farrell
33. A sky like a dustbin-lid —William Mcllvanney
34. Sky like a forget-me-not —Joyce Cary
35. Sky like a great glass eye —George Garrett
36. Sky like an immense blue gentian —Henry Van Dyke
37. Sky like a pig’s backside —Sylvia Plath
38. A sky like a tinted shell —Helen Hudson
39. The sky looked billowy, as if you could catch the corners of it and toss the stars around as in a net —Ada Jack Carver
40. Sky, pale and unreal as a photographer’s background screen —Katherine Mansfield
41. The sky seemed to be spread like a bottomless lake above them —William Styron
42. The sky shone like enamel —John Cheever
43. The sky swayed like a blue balloon on a string —Ross Macdonald
44. A sky that looked like water, broad, blue, its clouds rolling like great, feathery waves —Charles Johnson
45. The sky was full of little puffs of white clouds, like the ships we saw sailing far out to sea —Wilbur Daniel Steele
46. The sky [on a windy day] was like an unmade bed —Helen Hudson
47. The sky was like glass —James Reiss
48. The sky was like muslin —John Ashbery
49. The sky was like new-cleaned window glass full of its own shine —Joyce Cary
50. The sky was … like wet gray paper —Paul Horgan
51. The sky was overcast, monotone, as if it were made of pale gray rubber —Jean Thompson
52. The sky was pale and smudged like a dirty sheet —George Garrett
53. Smoke drifted across the sky looking like a gigantic horse’s mane blowing in the wind —Boris Pasternak
54. A starless sky as dark and thick as ink —Émile Zola
55. The sun bubbled in the sky, giving off clouds like puffs of steam —Helen Hudson
56. Winter skies hover over Iowa like a gray dome —W. P. Kinsella